solar cycle

基本解釋

But the opposite seems to have been true of the last solar cycle.
但是相反的情況似乎在上一個太陽周期就已出現(xiàn)。
Remember the deep solar minimum that persisted for the first two years of this solar cycle?
還記得在現(xiàn)在的太陽周期的頭兩年太陽持續(xù)處于活動低迷期嗎？
This east-west flow of plasma inside the sun normally indicates the onset of sunspot formation for the next solar cycle.
太陽內部自東向西的等離子流預示著下一個太陽周期里太陽黑子的形成。

The total energy reaching Earth from the sun rises and falls by just one tenth of one percent across this solar cycle.

Experts expect the current cycle, known as Solar Cycle 24, to peak in 2013.
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